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INTERVIEW
PN backbencher speaks out
on Gonzi’s ‘preferential’
treatment for Franco Debono
PHILIP MIFSUD:
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PRIME Minister Lawrence Gonzi is facing further unrest in his parliamentary backbench, as
appeasing MP Franco Debono has irked other
MPs who claim Gonzi has set a precedent for
“preferential” treatment.
Accommodating Debono after his stunt in
which he missed out on a parliamentary vote in
December, forcing the Speaker to cast his vote,
has triggered more discontent on the backbench,
to the extent that even the most lamblike of MPs
are now speaking out.
Zebbug MP Philip Mifsud has come out to
publicly question Gonzi’s wisdom in taking the
Franco Debono issue “so lightly” and giving him
the limelight and attention he was looking for.
“This is a very dangerous precedent. God forbid this attitude continues to spread among
the rest of us, because MPs will simply start to
subject government and the
Prime Minister to blackmail,
which is totally unacceptable,” Mifsud said.
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